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There`s any number of things that could dissipate the carbon monoxide. I don`t know why it became critical mass yesterday. Maybe the windows were not open. The doors may have been closed. I can`t answer that,

- Robert Edwards

It`s even more difficult here when you`re running in traffic. There are so many trees, the spray doesn`t dissipate and you have difficulty seeing the circuit, which can be pretty horrible.

- David Coulthard

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

- Bob Woodward

How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

- Lord Byron

When the wind speed began to go down the storm surge did not dissipate. ... There was essentially a lot more momentum in the water than there was in the wind.

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

- Pamela Ribon

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

- Washington Irving

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

- Samuel Johnson